Lectures

Chess lectures are held at the club from time to time. Sometimes this involves a series of lectures held over several weeks or it may be just a single lecture.

If you wish to attend, write you name on the sheet provided at the club or contact Norm Greenwood.

See the current Club Programme for the dates of this year's lectures.

Past Lectures

Ian Rogers 2002
On August 13 2002 Grandmaster Ian Rogers, Australia's highest rated player presented a lecture on the Fischer-Spassky matches of 1972 and 1992. He analysed several games from the matches and also talked about what went on behind the scenes.
A good sized audience turned out
to hear GM Ian Rogers
Ian Rogers analyses one of the
Fischer-Spassky games

Robert Goris 2002
Robert Goris presented a series of five lectures in May and June 2002. Robert has provided the notes for his 2001 lecture series, which are available for download in PDF format:

Simon Easterbrook-Smith 2001
Simon Easterbrook-Smith presented a series of five lectures in May and June 2001. Simon has provided the notes for his 2001 lecture series, which are available for download in PDF format: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files. If you don't already have it you can download it for free by clicking below.

Kevin Harrison 2000
Early in 2000 a series of lectures was presented by former NSW State Champion Kevin Harrison.

Ian Rogers 2000
On 22 August 2000, Australia's highest rated player Ian Rogers presented a lecture on the games of the then BGN World Championship challenger (now BGN World Champion) Vladimir Kramnik, and spoke about Kramnik's prospects of winning the upcoming match with Kasparov. The games presented by Ian Rogers in this lecture can be viewed and downloaded in PGN format with annotations from the Game Collections area by clicking here.